Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throats of Cairo street mobs marked a significant Middle East turning point. Cairenes were in the streets wailing in protest against a bizarre series of events on nearby Cyprus that began with a political assassination and climaxed in a massacre. The murder victim: Youssef Sebai, 60, author, chairman-editor of Egypt's semiofficial daily newspaper al-Ahram and a close friend of Anwar Sadat's. Sebai's slaying, by two Palestinian gunmen in the lobby of Nicosia's Cyprus Hilton, made him the first victim of Sadafs peace initiative toward Israel. But what infuriated Egyptians even...
...everyone buys her. One elder of the beauty biz finds the California look distinctly boring. "There have, always been superstars," says Diana Vreeland, who worked as an editor of Bazaar and then Vogue for four decades. She cites Veruschka, one of her own discoveries, from the '60s, "an artist who did the most extraordinary things with herself." The '60s, Vreeland feels, were more interesting. She considers the naturalism of the present period cloying. "There's too much blowing in the wind. At one time, it was fashionable to be made up and it was not fashionable to have your clothes...
...estate of America's dollar in world markets distresses nobody so much as Economist Robert Triffin, who expressed some far-reaching opinions about it in a talk with TIME Senior Editor Marshall Loeb. His report...
...children's stories; of a stroke; in Manhattan. After a lonely childhood as the daughter of an unsuccessful land speculator, McGinley moved to New York, took a job as a junior high school English teacher, and began selling poems to literary magazines. Asked by New Yorker Fiction Editor Katherine White, "Why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills, the damp loafers on the lawn. "Mothers are hardest to forgive...
Even among newspaper editors who support the Post's enterprise, there are many who say that both the Post and the Times are making a mountain out of a compost heap. "Let the titans fight it out," sniffs Claude Sitton, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and a former top Timesman. Miami Herald Executive Editor John McMullan suggested that for the next Watergate miscreant's memoirs, newspapers collude on a single syndication bid, not to exceed...